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FREDERIC MOMPOU: MÚSICA I PENSAMENT. Tesi Doctoral UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA FACULTAT DE FILOSOFIA I LLETRES, DEPARTAMENT D’ART I MUSICOLOGIA 2015 FREDERIC MOMPOU: MÚSICA I PENSAMENT. LA FLUÏDESA DE L’ÉSSER I LA CREATIVITAT MUSICAL (1893-1987) Tesi doctoral AUTOR: ADOLF PLA I GARRIGÓS DIRECTORS: JORDI BALLESTER I GIBERT / FRANCESC CORTÉS I MIR Al Bernat i a l’Anna, per la seva amistat. AGRAÏMENTS El primer agraïment el vull fer als meus directors de tesi, els doctors Jordi Ballester i Gibert i Francesc Cortés i Mir, per la seva ajuda permanent i la paciència infinita amb el meu treball. Agraeixo la col·laboració de la Fundació Frederic Mompou de Barcelona, particularment l’ajuda rebuda del seu president, Sr. Joan Millà; de l’ànima de la Fundació, Berta Millà; i de la poetessa i traductora Clara Janés, la qual m’ha ajudat molt fent-me partícip de la seva documentació. Gràcies també a l’equip de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, per les seves facilitats i diligència posant al meu abast la documentació del Fons Frederic Mompou. I, sobretot, a totes les persones estimades del meu voltant, família i amics, que amb el seu suport m’han permès l’aïllament necessari per a la meva tasca. ÍNDEX ABREVIATURES 12 INTRODUCCIÓ 15 Objectius 17 Antecedents 17 Metodologia i procés de recerca 20 Nota sobre les fonts biogràfiques 23 Localització del llegat 24 I. IMPRESSIONS I.1. LES IMPRESSIONS 26 I.2. LA INFÀNCIA I LES PRIMERES IMPRESSIONS 29 I.3. L’AMOR, LA MORT I EL BARRI DE PEKÍN 35 I.4. L’AMOR I LA CONTRADICCIÓ 41 I.5. LA IMPRESSIÓ DE SER INCOMPRÈS 49 II. REFLEXIONS II.1. DEL PENSAMENT FRAGMENTARI 55 II.2. DELS DOCUMENTS 59 II.3. L’ESTUDI DEL SENTIMENT 62 II.3.1. Context per a un tractat 62 II.3.2. Mètode per a l’expressió del sentiment i no de la tècnica 66 II.3.3. Documents 71 II.3.4. Una expressió dual del sentiment 77 II.3.5. La sonoritat del sentiment 79 II.3.6. La sonoritat en el temps: notes amb retràs i notes retingudes 84 II.3.7. Sentiment de passió i sentiment de puresa 86 II.3.8. Sobrecant i Diàleg 87 II.3.9. Una interpretació flotant 89 II.4. ELS CONTRARIS 90 II.4.1. La contradicció 90 II.4.2. Contraris integrats 97 II.4.3. L’origen dels oposats 101 II.4.4. Dualitat i simbolisme 103 II.4.5. Trinitat 105 II.4.6. De la filosofia dels contraris a l’espiritualitat oculta 108 II.5. L’ETERNITAT 116 II.5.1. Eternitat i oposats 116 II.5.2. Eternitat i intel·ligència 119 II.5.3. Eternitat: la roda que roda per si mateixa 123 II.6. LA UNITAT 125 II.6.1. Unitat i la divisió dels oposats 125 II.6.2. Desintegració de la unitat 127 II.6.3. Lluita o combinació 129 II.6.4. Déu creador i Déu dolorós 134 II.6.5. La secreta avinença de la matèria i l’esperit 137 II.6.6. Ser - No ser 140 II.6.7. De la unitat i del moviment 142 II.7. LA PERFECCIÓ 144 II.7.1. Perfecció i ambivalència 144 II.7.2. De la veritable Perfecció 149 II.7.3. La imperfecció del Creador 152 II.7.4. La imperfecció de l’home 154 II.7.5. L’home superior 156 II.8. LA VIDA I LA MATÈRIA 157 II.8.1. L’amor o l’engany de la matèria 157 II.8.2. Vida i perfecció 160 II.8.3. Vida i Número 162 II.8.4. De la fluïdesa i el pensament 165 II.9. LA IDENTITAT 168 II.9.1. La identitat catalana 168 II.9.2. Genealogia de la identitat: Amor i egoisme, buit i solidificació 171 II.9.3. Amistat i identitat 175 II.9.4. Identitat i pàtria 177 II.10. RECOMENÇAR 181 II.10.1. Recomençar per a Mompou 184 II.10.2. Genealogia del recomençar 190 II.10.3. El primitivisme aparent: senzillesa i simplicitat 193 II.10.4. La música de les muntanyes 199 II.10.5. Un retorn a allò proper: mediterraneïsme 202 II.10.6. Un retorn global: retroprogressisme 206 III. EXPRESSIONS III.1. L’EXPRESSIÓ POÈTICA 212 III.1.1. Mompou, el músic poeta 212 III.1.2. Mompou i la raó poètica 219 III.1.3. Els dibuixos i la poesia visual 221 III.1.4. Una visió breu de la cançó 228 III.2. EXPRESSIÓ DELS CONTRARIS 233 III.2.1. L’expressió dels contraris: consonància i dissonància 233 III.2.2. Una metafísica de la consonància 236 III.2.3. Els contraris en la forma i el caràcter 240 III.2.4. Indicacions i contraris 244 III.2.5. Màgia i contraris 250 III.3. EXPRESSIÓ DE LA UNITAT 254 III.3.1. Barri de platja: la revelació d'una unitat mòrfica 254 III.3.2. L’expressió dels quarts de to 259 III.3.3. L'acord metàl·lic: expressió sonora de la unitat 263 III.3.4. Simetria, asimetria i metall 270 III.4. RECOMENÇANT UN ORIGEN 275 III.4.1. L’expressió d’un origen 275 III.4.2. La ressonància primigènia 276 III.4.3. Ressonàncies i lligadures 280 III.4.4. L'expressió del silenci 283 III.4.5. L’absència de límits 289 III.5. RECOMENÇANT LA FORMA 295 III.5.1. Melodia i eternitat 295 III.5.2. Melodia i estructura 299 III.5.3. Expressió de la brevetat 303 III.5.4. Sintonies i radiotemes 307 III.5.5. De les sintonies a la Música callada: el flux d’una consciencia d’unitat 315 III.6. RECOMENÇANT LA TRADICIÓ 323 III.6.1. Identitat i temps passats 323 III.6.2. Ressonàncies medievals 326 III.6.3. La nota llarga 328 III.6.4. Un romanticisme depurat 336 III.6.5. Mediterraneïsme i concreció 341 III.6.6. La concreció i la llum 343 III.6.7. La concreció de la matèria 347 III.6.8. El jardí retrobat 356 CONCLUSIONS 363 BIBLIOGRAFIA 368 APÈNDIX 1 375 APÈNDIX 2 379 APÈNDIX 3 381 ANNEX 383 ABREVIATURES Abreviatures generals BC Fons Frederic Mompou de la Biblioteca de Catalunya. Inclou el topogràfic corresponent, llevat dels pensaments filosòfics (PS). FM Fons de la Fundació Frederic Mompou de Barcelona. CJ Arxiu personal de Clara Janés de Madrid. CMB Cartes de Frederic Mompou a Manuel Blancafort del Fons Frederic Mompou de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, M5022/2. PS Pensaments filosòfics de Frederic Mompou. Llibreta gris del Fons Frederic Mompou de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, M4986/13. La vida… Clara Janés. La vida callada de Federico Mompou. Vaso Roto. Mèxic, 2012. Textos y doc… Clara Janés. Federico Mompou. Vida, textos y documentos. Fundación Banco Exterior de España. Madrid, 1987. L’Expressió… Document mecanoscrit L’Expressió per a la interpretació al piano (c. 1919). Reproduït a la biografia de Clara Janés, La vida callada de Frederic Mompou, p. 258-317. DIEC2 Edició digital del Diccionari de la llengua catalana (2a edició) de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans. (*) Reproducció sonora de la il·lustració musical. Fragments de l’enregistrament Frederic Mompou. Integral de l’obra per a piano. Intèrpret: Adolf Pla. La Mà de Guido. Sabadell, 2012. Ref. LMG 2118. Abreviatures de L’Estudi del sentiment (II.3.3. Documents) Document Continguts Abreviatura Font Primer manuscrit Continguts parcials FM (Fons de la manuscrits, organitzats Fundació F. Mompou) (1913-1914) amb índex. (1M) Pensaments III Continguts parcials FM (Fons de la manuscrits, dividits en Fundació F. Mompou) (1913-1914) apartats. (2P) (segon manuscrit) L’Expressió... Document original CJ (Arxiu personal definitiu mecanoscrit. Clara Janés) (c. 1919) (3EX) FM (Fons de la (mecanoscrit) Fundació F. Mompou) Document digitalitzat L’Estudi del sentiment Conjunt dels continguts CJ (Arxiu personal de tots els documents. Clara Janés) (4ES) FM (Fons de la Fundació F. Mompou) Introducció INTRODUCCIÓ La motivació principal per escriure aquesta tesi neix de l’experiència d’estar en contacte amb la música de Mompou des de l’àmbit de la interpretació. L’impuls que em va fer decidir abordar aquest tema sorgí a l’experimentar, durant els darrers anys, una recepció especialment positiva de la música de Frederic Mompou. Persones de procedències culturals molt distants, com són les de la Xina, Mèxic o Finlàndia, per posar alguns exemples, prenien aquesta música amb molta naturalitat i interès, tant en concerts com en sessions pedagògiques d’interpretació. El fenomen es donava en persones de diversa formació intel·lectual i artística, la majoria amb un complet desconeixement de la figura i de l’obra del compositor. Era per a mi sorprenent l’interès que tenien molts joves per rebre informació sobre la discografia i la bibliografia del compositor, i el seu desig de conèixer més obres i incorporar aquesta música al seu consum musical. És curiós el cas d’un editor de Madrid que m’explicava que, en els seus trajectes en cotxe, sovint escoltava fragments de Musica callada, entre reunió i reunió. Aquesta música el relaxava, deia. Una altra motivació té relació amb el context formatiu de la interpretació. En l’àmbit de la pedagogia de la interpretació pianística, Mompou és un compositor poc interpretat. Habitualment mestres i deixebles mostren reticència en abordar la música d’aquest compositor i no semblen trobar-li un sentit específic que permeti focalitzar uns objectius i unes pautes clares d’acord als seus continguts. Això em fa pensar que el desconeixement general d’aquesta música és la raó principal que, en el context acadèmic, fa que sigui tant poc estudiada i que tingui sovint un rol tant poc rellevant dins el repertori general dels estudiants.
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